Chapter 15

A month later

Percy hung back leaning against the mountain entrance as Balin and Bilbo walked past her without noticing. Bilbo was too worried about leaving without letting anyone know and Balin was trying to stall to give the others enough time to gather.

"There is to be a great feast tonight. Songs will be sung, tales will be told. Thorin Oakenshield and his Company's deeds will be officially passed into legend for ages to come. As will toasts for those that fell during the Battle of the Five Armies."

Bilbo half smiled at the thought of the company and began to get slightly choked up as he tried to come up with a response. He didn't want to truly leave, but he knew that as of right now his time with the dwarves was over with. Maybe in the future he would return. But right now, he was ready to return to Bag End.

"Alright I'm going to slip. You'll tell the others I said goodbye, yeah?"

"You can tell them yourself."

Bilbo paused then turned back around to see Thorin, Fili, Kili, and the other dwarves standing at the entrance to the mountain. He gasped silently but he should have known. He moved towards them with a small smile stretched on his face.

"Uh, if any of you are ever passing Bag End, uh, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime." All the dwarves inclined their heads. "And uh, don't bother knocking."

The dwarves smirked and chuckled softly. Some even had tears gathered in their eyes. Bilbo then turned with a nod of his head before beginning to walk to where Gandalf was waiting to take him home.

"I hope you're not leaving without saying goodbye, dear hobbit." Percy called, making more than one dwarf jump as none had seen her. Bilbo paused again and turned to her with a large smile. Percy moved through the Company of dwarves to reach Bilbo's side. She bent her knee so that she was face to face with her dear friend.

"I think I'll miss you the most, Percy." Bilbo choked out. Percy just smiled and opened her arms and he wasted no time at all by wrapping his arms around her. He felt like he was being hugged by his own mother when Percy wrapped her arms around him, holding him in a tight hug of farewell. He pulled back after a moment. "Will I ever see you again?"

Percy sighed and reached up, wiped a tear off his cheek. "I do not know, my friend. If Eru wills it, we shall. But my time here is almost over."

Bilbo wasn't the only one that looked at her in shock, so did the dwarves.

Ori stepped forward. "You're leaving too?!"

Percy turned her gaze so that she looked at them all. "I will have to, very soon… there are others that need me, just like you all needed me. They are my children, just as you are all Mahal's children."

Stunned silence came from Balin, Bilbo, Ori, Thorin, and Gandalf as they were the first ones to comprehend what she just said.

"What are you saying? You created beings like Mahal made us? And how other Valar created the other races of Middle Earth?" Thorin asked. The other dwarves now hearing it outlaid also gaping.

Percy winked at them and looked over her shoulder to see Thranduil atop his elk steed and Glorfindel beside two horses, one of which was Blackjack. And on the other side of Thranduil, was another blonde haired elf that made Percy narrow her eyes… it couldn't be? Could it?

"Eru and I are much more similar than any other you shall meet. And while I still have the time granted to me by Eru to be here, I will spend the time I can with my loves. Most of you will most likely not see me again in this world. But, if Mahal and Eru gives you the option, I would be more then happy to have you reborn into mine. It has been a pleasure getting to know you all, to become apart of your family on this journey and to watch you all grow, but you all don't need me anymore. I love you all… and Balin? Please don't try to retake Moria, there is a Balrog in depths. Bilbo, good luck. Gandalf, keep him safe."

With that, not even letting anyone say anything in return, Percy was speed walking towards her two elves and the stranger, whom when walking closer, wasn't that much of a stranger at all. With a strangled gasp, Percy began sprinting towards him as he dismounted from his own horse and moved to catch her in his arms, holding her tightly.

"Celeborn."

"My dear Seph." Percy sank into his arms with a soft smile on her lips. She felt Glorfindel and Thranduil also join them so that she was in the middle of their arms. Finally, she was reunited with the elves that she loved, the elves whose very souls were intertwined with her very own.

Percy pulled back to look into Celeborn's angular face, her eyes drinking him in. "Wh-What are you doing here? I thought you were with your One, Lady Galadriel?"

Celeborn smiled gently and raised a hand to wipe a tear from her face, mirroring what she did to Bilbo earlier. "I love and will always love Galadriel. But you, Percy, and I'm sure Thranduil and Glorfindel feel it in their fae as well, are our true One. Galadriel apparently saw your arrival some time ago and so released me from my vows and my duty as her husband, even though I shall still be Lord of Lothlorien until the day I pass onto the Undying Lands. The three of us will always and only be compete by your side, in your arms, apart of your heart. If you will have us?"

Percy nodded her head, speechless but eternally grateful that the three men were truly hers.

"I love you, Celeborn. I love you, Glorfindel. I love you, Thranduil. I don't know what or how I'm going to live without you when my time is up here."

She had told the three of them years ago about what she truly was as she wished not to keep secrets from them and they hadn't cared back then and they certainly didn't care now.

Thranduil hushed her. "Shh, love, its alright. Maybe Eru will give us a chance to be reborn and we will indeed find you in the universe that you have created."

Percy's eyes lit up at the thought, her emotions leaving her forgetful to the fact that Eru indeed would be offering it to those Percy had been dearly was going to miss.

"Let's get out of here. We could be having a lot of fun right now but you all decided to start the heavy talk without us near a bed." Glorfindel said causing Percy to laugh but she did take Glorfindel's hand and allowed him to lead her over to Blackjack.

Hey, there, Boss! You bring any donuts?

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One month later

Percy sighed as she turned back to look at the three powerful elves standing in the empty throne room with her. Thranduil had cleared it as they all sensed that it was time. Today was the day.

They had already said their 'special' goodbyes to each other as well as hugs and smooches.

"Well, this is it… Hopefully I'll see the three of you on the other side… I'm going to miss you," she whispered. The three elves didn't say anything but their shining eyes and clenching of the jaw, and the several other times they've said goodbye more then made up for it in her opinion.

"Be careful, love. Stay safe until we are with you." Celeborn's soft whisper seemed to caress Percy's body causing her to get a full body shiver.

Percy closed her eyes and absorbed the power that was in her necklace, feeling more whole as her power and strength began to flow back into her. She wasn't at 100% yet, but that wouldn't happen until she was fully in her world once more. Her hands began to glow and in front of her a portal began to appear, widening until she saw her cabin on the other side.

"Remember, this is not a goodbye, my loves. This is a 'until i see you again'." And she stepped through. When she was fully in her own world, the portal slipped shut and she collapsed to her knees, feeling an unbearable ache in her chest. Something she knew would be there until she was reunited with them.

She couldn't wait. And she couldn't help but also turn her mind onto her children. It was time to tell them, their Mother is home.